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Show She Has Been a Very Much Abused Woman, This So-Called Nagging Wife By DR. EUGENE LYMAN FISK, in New York Herald. Marriage is the best life insurance in the world, both for men and women. Statistics prove not only that the average man or woman of average health and strength and average problems for meeting the economic problems of existence have a chance of longer life if married than if single, but statistics also prove that marriage prolongs life, upon the whole, even where health is poor or unstable at the outset, as measured against that of the bachelor or the unmarried woman. Married people saddled with the responsibilities of family have got to keep their health, such as it is, and if possible try to improve it. An end to which the average man is driven, first by blind unconscious instinct and second by plain common sense, egged on perhaps, on occasion, should he need it, by a nagging wife. She has been a very much abused woman, this so-called nagging wife, but if the truth were known I think it would be found that the world owes an incalculable debt to wives of a nagging propensity, and certainly every rightly constituted woman must have the potentialities of a "nagger" if the best and highest possibilities of her man are to be realized. |